Orcistus
Orcistus a town in the north-east of Phrygia, near the borders of Galatia. It was, the see of a bishop (Geogr. Sacr. p. 256; Concil. Chalced.; Tab. Peuting). It is placed by Col. Leake (Asia Minor, p. 71), on the authority of an inscription found there by Pococke, at Alekiam, and, perhaps more correctly, by Hamilton (Researches, i. p. 446) about 3 or 4 miles to the south-east of the village of Alekiam, where considerable remains of antiquity are found.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.